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Backups

 

Hardware is indeterministically reliable.
Software is deterministically unreliable.
People are indeterministically unreliable.
Nature is deterministically reliable.

This chapter explains about why, how, and when to make backups, and how to restore things from backups.





Lars Wirzenius
Sun May 4 14:08:43 EEST 1997